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Astroturfing on the web–Creating your own grass roots movement
By mike, Jul 29 in blog with 0 commentsTweet Funny sounding title I know, but the very essence of what you and I read on the net is under threat from companies and lobbyists taking over social media sites to lobby or to create artificial grass roots movements. Online forums and blogs including Twitter are being taken over and hi jacked by people [&hellip
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Tweet Hacker groups Anonymous and Lulz Security have called for a boycott of PayPal to punish the electronic payments firm for its refusal to accept donations for WikiLeaks. PayPal, Visa and MasterCard have stopped accepting donations for WikiLeaks in December after the website began releasing sensitive US State Department cables. PayPal says the decision to [&hellip
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Tweet Twitter will begin placing advertisements known as ‘Promoted Tweets’ in the timelines of users who follow a particular brand or company. Twitter said it will begin testing the new advertising offering with a number of companies including Dell, Gatorade, Groupon, JetBlue, LivingSocial, Microsoft, Red Bull, Starbucks and Virgin America. Promoted Tweets from non-profits such [&hellip
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Tweet The National Broadband Network will on Friday plug the first East Coast site into the super-fast grid. It is coming a day after NBN Co released the third edition of its Wholesale Broadband Agreement and a discussion paper providing an overview of its planned Special Access Undertaking. It sets out the arrangements for the [&hellip
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Tweet A German hacker group has called for online users to circulate altered versions of the 1500-page manifesto by Norwegian terrorist suspect Anders Behring Breivik, until the original document is drowned out by copies. ‘Ensure that Anders becomes a joke, so nobody takes him seriously any more,’ declared the hacker group Anonymous on Tuesday. In [&hellip